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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA5/14/13 7:29 AM |
Not This Year
I've completed 21 of these things and this year I decided that unless the weather forecast was stellar I was going to bag it. I've ridden it in cold rain and against headwinds both days both ways enough times to satisfy any craving for self abuse.
Saturday's forecast was a high probability of rain and temperatures the '50's and Sunday's was dry but a low in the upper 30's with cross winds both days so my buddy and I stayed home. Did I miss much?
I'm riding Bike VA in June and DALMAC in August so I will get my organized rides in this year.
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area5/14/13 7:52 AM |
day-1 was fun, slightly favoring side-wind. not much sun, but still very fun indeed!
day-2 started out wonderful, sunny if a bit chilly...but it became somewhat more challenging after chillicothe. actually it was only the last ~25 miles into c-bus where the side-wind ramped up in ferocity and turned into our faces.
it's been alot worse before, so not that bad really...and, hey, at least we stayed dry for a change!
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real5/14/13 6:40 PM |
Looked like tons of fun!
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area5/14/13 8:42 PM |
evidence of the wind...
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA5/15/13 7:54 AM |
Just a Breeze
I remember a couple of years ago it was so windy I swear there were whitecaps on the farm ponds.
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area5/15/13 10:56 AM |
2010
I'm still mentally scarred by the Saturday winds between c-bus and circleville!
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19080
Location: PDX5/15/13 11:03 AM |
It pisses me off he is already doing 200 mile rides. ;)
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT5/15/13 11:54 AM |
That's not a 200 mile ride.
That's two 105 mile rides!
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19080
Location: PDX5/15/13 11:57 AM |
Oh, in that case... ;O
Was not sure about that actually. ;)
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area5/15/13 8:19 PM |
105+105=210
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT5/16/13 3:09 AM |
That was my point...
Two different rides, one each day. It's a niggling point, I admit, but I want to distinguish the things randonneurs do, which are pretty much continuous rides with only a few minutes of sleep here and there from multi-day rides. I mean, I've done St. Paul to Chicago over five or six days, but that's not the same as BMB or PBP. When you break a ride over several days, and you get a full night's sleep in-between, it isn't really
one
ride...
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area5/16/13 9:07 AM |
absolutely true! and more than a niggling point
there's definitely a decline in performance on subsequent days, just like on a stage-race...but the physiological demands with a nights rest between are nothing like an essentially continuous effort of a brevet or RAAM!
my avg-power on both days was identical, even though my perceived effort was significantly higher and avg-hr was 15bpm lower on day-2...all indicative of accumulated tiredness.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT5/16/13 9:26 AM |
Many years ago...
I lived in Schenectady, NY, and knew this couple that was seriously into riding. Like, one day they rode ~80+ miles to visit a relative, and when they found out that the weather would be bad the next day, aborted their overnight and rode home.
Now
that
was impressive!
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